Lycopodiidae
English: Clubmosses; Lycopods; Fern allies.
Name: Lycopodianae; Lycophyta; Lycophytes.
Clades: Lycopodianae; Pteridophyta; Plants.
Culture: the remains of Lycopodiidae account for our major coal deposits.
Botany.
Clubmosses; vascular plant; ± 410 million years old.
Leaves: with a single vein.
Reproduction: by shedding spores; bear a protostele; having microphylls.
Taxonomy
Lycopodiales is an Order in the Phylum Pteridophyta or classified as a Phylum at the beginning of the tracheophyta.
Plant theory
In the Plant theory Lycopodiales is the only Order in the Class Lycopodiidae. Lycopodiidae is placed in the Carbon series of the Pteridophyta.